Jokes apart, Rapex was a desperate attempt from someone in South Africa to discourage sexual violence. According to the researchers, South Africa has one of the highest rates of rape in the world. And taking in to account the fact that almost one in five adult males there are infected with HIV, rape essentially means a death sentence to the women. And some sick people in South Africa believe that raping an infant can cure you from AIDS.
True, you have to be that desperate to give your vagina teeth. Was rape in South Africa this bad a decade ago? I don't even remember hearing the country in the news before.
Getting AIDS really is a death sentence for any poor person that would not have access to antiretrovirals.
I thought
this is just in the poorer sub-Saharan parts of Africa... You mean even in South Africa, there are people who believe this?! Wow, the country has really hit the fan.